Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and Director Emeritus of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He is the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization; Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America; and Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts.